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by **savares** » Fri, 01 Mar 2002 22:25:17

> Upon "boot net - install", my clients do discover their IP address and
> get the kernel. The kernel starts and siplays the "SunOS Release..."
> message. Nothing more is printed on the display. By snooping, I can
> see that some NFS traffic follows, and a while later the install client
> tries to dump core.

Without output I don't know for certain, but I had a similar problem and it
was a typo in my /etc/bootparams file. Look in there to make sure that your
clients are configured correctly. In particular make sure all the mount
points are correct.

Scott

by **savares** » Sat, 02 Mar 2002 05:46:56

> It looks like Solaris 8 10/01 media is defective. The root directory
> is missing an awful lot of /dev stuff. 1/01, 4/01, 7/01 media has no
> such problems. Did the install procedure change? It would seem un-
> likely that a defective CD would have made it through the quality
> control process.

I have a feeling that the /dev directory isn't the issue (my dev directory
has 50 entries)...The jumpstart should rebuild the /devices and /dev trees
during the installation... Have you obtained successful jumpstarts using
the 7/01 media?

Scott

by **savares** » Sat, 02 Mar 2002 22:24:06

> My Sun rep said their 10/01 media has all the files in /dev and they're
> going to give me a new copy. I'm setting up 7/01 as we speak. This is
> the first ever time I'm dabbling in Jumpstart.

I totally doubt it has to do with the media you are using, but yeah...try
it with the 7/01 and see what happens. Just to ask...What commands did you
use to set up the jumpstart server? And what commands did you do to set up
an individual client? And of couse to start the client, you did a
"boot net - install", right?

Scott

by **Jay Lesse** » Sun, 03 Mar 2002 05:52:01

> > Upon "boot net - install", my clients do discover their IP address and
> > get the kernel. The kernel starts and siplays the "SunOS Release..."
> > message. Nothing more is printed on the display. By snooping, I can
> > see that some NFS traffic follows, and a while later the install client
> > tries to dump core.

Ran into the exact same symptoms. In my case, the problem was that I ignored
the instructions to share the jumpstart/boot directory with '-o ro,anon=0' (the
parent directory was already shared, so I figured what the hell).

Bad idea. They mean it. So go check your dfstab.

-Jay-

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